AUBURN â Entries for artwork to be featured on new banners in downtown Auburn is due today.
Auburn Main Street is preparing to order new banners for downtown light poles with an opportunity for up to 30 unique banners to be hung in an art district on Sixth and Main streets.
âBanners will be hung year-round and will expand the momentum of creating an art culture in the Sixth/Main Street corridor. We are thrilled to get artists involved in this movementâ said Ann Finchum, economic vitality chair for Auburn Main Street. âThe banners will be revealed in early spring.â
Since 2017, Auburn Main Street s Economic Vitality Committee has worked collaboratively to revitalize Sixth and Main streets: first, with the revitalization of street work with the Office of Community and Rural Affairs and the City of Auburn through the Main Street Revitalization Grant Program; then in 2019 and 2020 with the creation of murals through crowdfunding with Patronicity and Indiana Hou
FREDERICTON Fredericton’s housing crisis has come one-step closer to a potential solution. A survey on single room occupancy units was well received by the city of Fredericton’s Economic Vitality Committee. Affordable housing advocates in the city are hoping those results can lead to the creation of a bylaw to encourage affordable housing. A bylaw expected to be crafted by Fredericton’s city council could help the city’s homeless population. “Just pass it would be the quick answer,” says Warren Maddox, Executive Director of Fredericton Homeless Shelters Inc. It would create a zoning bylaw to develop single room occupancy units as an affordable housing, but that depends on how it rolls out.